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CHANGE GATE.

No. 350,409; Patented Oct. 5, 188 6.

open to a number of objections.

} UNITE STATES :ATE'NT' OFFICE.

JOHN M. BISHOIflOF \VASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

CHANGE-GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 0,409, dated October 5, 1886.

Application filed May 20, 1886. Serial No. 202.706.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, JOHN M. BISHOP, a citizen of the United States, residing at \Vashington,in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Change-Gates, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to those devices which are especially intended for application to a street-car door to facilitate'the procuring of change or tickets by the passengers from the driver. As ordinarily constructed, such devices, commonly called change-gates, are In some no support is provided for the money or ticket in its passage to and from the driver, and the hand of the passenger or driver is thrust through a hole in the door permanently or temporarily open. The annoyances of this form, due to the dropping of money and tickets and to other causes, are obvious. In other forms, where a support ofsome kind is pro Vided,it generally interferes more or less with the sliding of the door. I

My improvements are intended to do away with these annoyances; and they consist in certain details of construction, which will first be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings, and will then be specifically pointed out in the claims.

In said drawings, Figure I is'a perspective view of my improved change-gate and of a portion of a car-door to which it is applied, the parts being in the position assumed when change is desired by a passenger. Fig. II is a face elevation, the parts having returned to a normal position. Fig. III is a vertical sec tional view, the plane of section being iiidicated by the dotted line III III, Fig. II, but the parts being shifted to a position the reverse of that shown in Fig. I.

1 may represent a portion of a street-car door. In any desired part thereof, but preferably in either the middle rail or in the lockstile, is fixed a frame, 2, having two openings from front torear separated by a bar, 3. This bar is east or otherwise formed integrally with the rest of the frame. Tubes 4 5, preferably rectangular in horizontal section, are supported by trunnions or studs 6 in the vertical'bars of the frame in such manner that they may be tilted forward or backward on a (No model.)

horizontal axis, thus presentingtheir open up per ends within or without the car. The movement of the tubes is made synchronous and opposite by means of a rock-shaft, 7, whose horizontal portion has bearing in the bar 3 of the frame, while its oppositely-turned crank-arms bear wrists or pins which engage in.slots 8 in the sides of the tubes 4 5. One

of the tubesas, for example, 4- is marked Change, and the other Tickets.

The method of using the device is as follows: A passenger desiring change will pull out with thumb or finger the upper end of tube 4, the top bar of frame 2 being cut away at 9 to aid him in this, and deposit his money therein. Reaching the driver through tube 4, it will be indicated to him that change, and not tickets, is desired. The proper change being provided is dropped by the driver into tube 5, whose mouth is presented forward automatically when tube 4 is pulled out backward by the passenger, as already described. The change being delivered to the passenger through tube 5, the driver, by pushing the upper end of such tube, returns both 4 and 5 automatically to the normal position shown in Fig. II, in which position they do not project beyond the surface of the door, and so do not interfere with the sliding thereof. By

such a method of communication between passenger and driver the present difficulty and confusion experienced in obtaining change or tickets when one or the other is desired are entirely avoided.

In order to support the money or tickets when they fall through tubes 4 5, I provide flaps or doors 10, (one at each side of each tube,) hinged at bottom to frame 2, as shown at 11, and pressed up against the tubes automatically by spiral springs 12, Fig. I, or platesprings 13, Fig. III. The sides of tubes 4 5 project down to near the base of the frame, as shown at 14, so that when the said tubes are tilted, as above described, the flap or door 10 on one or the other side of each tube will be forced down, as shown in Fig. III, while its opposite flap will follow the tubeand keep it effectually closed at rear, so that money or tickets falling through the tube cannot escape.

Having thus described my invention,the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A change-gate consisting of a tube supported so as to oscillate on a horizontal axis, and a flap or door supported at the lower end of said tube, and adapted to be turned down by the oscillation of said tube to afford a shelf for supporting the money or tickets, substan tially as set forth.

2. In a change-gate, the combination of two tubes for delivering money or tickets,1nounted so as to oscillate on horizontal axes, and connected so as to move simultaneously in opposite directions, substantially as set forth.

3. In a change-gate, the combination of a frame, a tube mounted therein so as to oscillate on a horizontal axis, flaps or doors hinged to said frame at each side of said tube, and projections on said tube for operating said llaps or doors, substantially asset forth.

4. In a changegate, the continuation of a frame, a tube mounted so as to oscillate therein, flaps or doors hinged to said frame at each side of said tube, projections on said tube for operating said flaps or doors, and springs for returning said flaps or doors to normal position, substantially as set forth.

In a change-gate, the combination of a frame, tubes mounted so as to oscillate therein and having slots in their sides, a rook-shaft 

